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Saturday, May 03, 2014

ORDINARY VOICES

This is a very interesting video of various Ukrainian citizens across the east of the country who are non-violently resisting the thugs, fascists, and mercenaries being set upon them by the US-EU sponsored Kiev 'government'. They speak clearly and passionately about the repression they are facing as they organize in opposition to the nationalist forces being armed and controlled by the US installed regime in Kiev.

While Crimea has already had a referendum, the situation in other
Ukrainian regions is still unstable. People want their voices to be
heard and are demanding a vote. Many of the videos and
interviews you will see in this film have never been shown on
television.

NON-VIOLENTLY CONFRONTING U.S.-EU RULE

Amateur footage shows an angry mob in Kramatorsk, eastern Ukraine
yelling at Kiev forces as a new 'anti-terror operation' is underway.
Locals are calling soldiers "fascists" and telling them go back to Kiev
because they don't need them in Kramatorsk.

Notice that the local people are not armed. They confront 'their government forces' who have come to enforce US-EU corporate rule.

I'd like to see this footage with honest reporting in US mainstream media.

Obama and Kerry keep complaining about Russia Today (RT) media. The reason why is because RT is telling us what is really happening in Ukraine and all along the Russian border. When Obama and Kerry instruct me about what I should watch on TV then I know I must be heading in the correct direction.

WHO WILL PROTECT INTERNET FREEDOM?

Running for president in 2007, Barack Obama pledged to keep the
Internet open to all, upholding the principle of Net neutrality. Now his
FCC chairman, Tom Wheeler, has introduced new rules that have caused an
uproar among public interest groups and media reform advocates. They
believe Wheeler’s proposed changes break Obama’s campaign promise and
will allow providers like Verizon and Comcast to sell faster access to
the Web to the highest bidder.

The problem, Bill Moyers says, is
that “business and government are now so intertwined that public
officials and corporate retainers are interchangeable parts of what
Chief Justice John Roberts might call ‘the gratitude machine.’” FCC
officials, including Wheeler, transit back and forth through the
revolving door between public service and lucrative private commerce,
losing sight of the greater good. But there’s still time to speak up and
make your voices heard.

BAITING THE BEAR

Union hall in Odessa burns after fascist Right Sector forces, working on behalf of the Kiev government put in power by the US-EU, set fire to it. Some 46 died in the flames or from jumping out of the burning building.

Unrest erupted on Friday, May 2, with a mass fight started by football fans from Kharkiv, Right Sector radicals and members of the so-called “Maidan self-defense” force from Kiev, who had decided to march along the streets of Odessa, thus provoking clashes with the supporters of Ukraine’s federalisation.

Obama and the EU leaders blame Russia and Putin for this. The truth is that the Kiev military mobilization against eastern Ukraine began after US CIA director Brennan and V-P Biden made recent trips to Kiev likely instructing them to advance onto protesters in the east.

No doubt in my mind that the US-EU are baiting the bear, trying to get Russia to respond to protect the people in the east which would then give NATO "the pretext" to make an attack on Russia.

Watch in this video above how EU politicians try to make it seem like it was pro-Russian forces who set fire to the union hall. The height of arrogance and hypocrisy. Who could ever believe a word these bastards say again!

You can see the Right Sector nationalists enjoying themselves as they set fire to the union building in Odessa and take shots at those who refuse to turn Ukraine over to MR. Big and his fascist agents.

What struck me the most is that the police appear to sit back until the damage is done before they 'gently' move in near the end of this video. In the whole video you never hear or see a fire truck.... strange in a big city like Odessa. The US-EU controlled 'government' in Kiev must have blocked the fire trucks - all part of the script that was written for this day.

NEWS ROUND-UP

People in the Philippines staged major protests during Obama's visit to sign new agreements to allow US military bases to return to their country. The US was kicked out of the Philippines in 1992 and had to close its Navy and Air Force bases.

At Beale AFB in California on Tuesday, the two main gates into the base for the first
time during rush hour commute were successfully shut
down, simultaneously. Thirteen people were arrested, six were veterans and three others had
never done civil resistance before. Beale AFB hosts the Global Hawk (Surveillance drone), the U2 spy plane and the MC12 Liberty aircraft, all
participants in the so-called "war on terror." The base also has a PAVE PAWS radar which plays a key role in space directed warfare.

Obama's visit to the Philippines this week was met with major opposition protests. Long-time activist Walden Bello who represents Akbayan (Citizens’ Action Party) in the House of Representatives of the Philippines writes:

As U.S. President Barack Obama descends on the Philippines, Manila and Washington are rushing to complete negotiations on an Agreement on Enhanced Defense Cooperation (AEDC) between the two countries.

What the agreement boils down to is that the Philippines will give the United States the right to operate bases in the country—for no rent—without the guarantee of U.S. protection of the country’s island territories.

With the impending basing agreement with the United States, the Philippines is right back to its position during the Cold War, when it played the role of handmaiden to the U.S. containment strategy by hosting two huge military bases. The small window of opportunity to forge an independent foreign policy that the Philippines gained with the expulsion of the U.S. bases in 1992 will disappear with the impending signing of this latest pact with Washington.

Russia is calling an extraordinary meeting of the United Nations Security
Council over the punitive operation staged by the Kiev authorities in
Ukraine’s southeastern regions, a spokesman for Russia’s permanent mission
at the United Nations told ITAR-TASS on Friday. Ukrainian special forces have started a punitive operation in the city of
Sloviansk early on Friday morning. “A full sweep operation was launched”
with armoured vehicles and warplanes involved in it, a representative of the
city militia told ITAR-TASS. The Ukrainian Defense Ministry stated that two
Ukrainian Air Force’s helicopter gunships Mil Mi-24 had been downed and a
military transport helicopter Mi-8 had been damaged in clashes.

Boris Yulyevich Kagarlitsky is a Russian sociologist who has been a political dissident in the Soviet Union and in post-Soviet Russia. He is coordinator of the Transnational Institute Global Crisis project and Director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements (IGSO) in Moscow. He writes:

The arguments of the Kremlin in this dispute have not worked, and cannot work, for the simple reason that Western politicians for the present are not especially interested in what official Russia is thinking or doing. These politicians know perfectly well that there is no Russian invasion, and this, precisely, is the main international problem for them. To admit as much means admitting that the government in Kiev has gone to war on its own people.

To speak of the Donetsk Peoples Republic as an independent political phenomenon in impossible, since this would require posing the question of the reasons for the popular protest, and listing its demands. The talk of Kremlin agents and of the ubiquitous Russian troops—who are impossible to discover, but who have occupied close to half of Ukraine without firing a shot or even showing themselves on Ukrainian territory—is playing the same propaganda role against the Donetsk republic as was played in the anti-Bolshevik propaganda of 1917 by stories of German spies and of money from the German General Staff.

Amid rising tensions with Russia, the U.S. defense chief Chuck Hagel said
Washington and its allies may "adjust" the timing for fielding "missile defense" (MD) systems in Europe. For now, "we are continuing with our schedule with the enhanced
adaptive approach to fulfill the commitments that we've made in the
interests of Poland, Romania and our NATO partners," Defense Secretary
Chuck Hagel told reporters at the Pentagon in mid-April. The adjustment appears to mean opening the door to additional deployments of MD in other nations that border Russia.

Georgia’s Defense Minister, Irakli Alasania, said in Washington on April
30 that in response to Russia’s actions in Ukraine, NATO allies should deploy “defensive assets” in Georgia. Air defense and anti-armor capabilities –
“this is something we need to put in Georgia and Russians will understand that
you are serious,” Alasania told the Washington-based think-tank Atlantic
Council’s “Toward a Europe Whole and Free” conference. They are talking about MD deployments and putting them in Georgia would be one more provocative step toward encircling Russia with these systems that are intended to serve as the "shield" after a US-NATO first-strike attack is launched.

It is obvious that the US is really stepping up the anti-Russian rhetoric and military "containment". Things do not bode well for stability and peace in the region as US-NATO are forcing Russia to submit to corporate domination or face the possibility of major war.

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

RESISTING THE NSA

THE LATEST FROM CHIEF BLOVIATOR

Washington is spinning the wheel of blame in regard to the Ukrainian
stand-off. This time it is pointing at the EU. The criticism came in
comments made by US Secretary of State, John Kerry. For more on this RT
is joined by Gayane Chichakyan.

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE

The US airborne division, which is to take part in NATO exercise 'Spring
Storm' in May arrived in Estonia. Around 150 personnel arrived in the
military transport aircraft to the Amari airbase, according to the
country's defense ministry.

Estonia is on Russia's border.

These working class kids, with little other job prospects, sent into another potential meat grinder...when will we ever learn. We don't seem to care unless it is our kid. They are all our children - on all sides. Enough of this war mongering!

Monday, April 28, 2014

FAST LANE - SLOW LANE ON INTERNET

Digital rights groups are mobilizing over rumors the Federal
Communications Commission may be about to abandon the principle of net
neutrality. Organizations are concerned the agency may release new rules
allowing companies to pay internet service providers to deliver their
content faster than the content of competitors. The agency attempted to
implement regulations ensuring net neutrality in the past, but a federal
court struck down the move. Executive vice president of the National
Hispanic Media Coalition Jessica Gonzalez speaks with RT's Ameera David
to break down net neutrality and what it means for the public.

HEDGES ON THE MEDIA WAR

The crisis in Ukraine and the steadily dropping temperature in relations
between Moscow and Washington made many talk about a new Cold War; and
many others are worried it may turn 'hot'. But there's another war going
on right now: the information war.

US Secretary of State Kerry has
already attacked RT, calling it "Putin's propaganda machine." But
Washington itself uses dubious evidence and fake facts. What is the
information war? What methods is America using?

WHERE ARE THE U.S. WMD'S?

60 Minutes has become another version of Hollywood news.... but this episode is helpful to the public in that we are reminded that the US still has many nuclear weapons.
Why? Who is the enemy? Are they defensive systems or are they part of a larger forward deployed US military machine?

TOURING THE JEJU STORY

Sunday, April 27, 2014

REMEMBERING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE VIETNAM WAR

I returned home to Maine this morning on the train from New York City.
Fellow Maine Veterans for Peace (VFP) member Doug Rawlings and I were up early
at our respective home stays to get to Penn Station for the 7:00 am train to
Boston. We had loads of time on the four-hour ride back to Boston and
then another two-hour bus ride to Portland to review the remarkable trip.

We got to the Judson Memorial Church yesterday at 1:00 pm to help set things
up for the national VFP event calledFull Disclosure: An Honest Commemoration of the American War in Vietnamthat
would run from 5:00-9:00 pm and drew over 200 people. We helped hang
banners in the huge church hall, put chairs out, and set up literature and food
tables. National VFP board member Tarak Kauff and his partner Ellen
Davidson were the lead organizers and it was a pleasure to support their good work.

The photo above (taken by Ellen Davidson) is of a New York City
artist who did a remarkable art performance piece for three full hours during
the program. Just as the event was to begin he slowly walked down the
center isle toward the stage where something was hanging from a microphone
stand and covered in a black shroud. Dressed in a baggy uniform, and wearing
oversized black boots, he carried a wooden military style rifle with a bayonet
attached to the end. Slowly he climbed the stage and dropped his rifle
onto the floor and then removed the bayonet. He carefully pulled the
shroud away and a dummy was revealed that had a big red target on its chest.

One thought that maybe he would stick his
knife into the dummy's chest but instead he carefully took the knife and cut
the target away from the dummy. Then he removed the rope that was
looped around the dummy's neck and gently lowered the dummy into his lap as he
sat down on the edge of the stage. Then the soldier reached over and
opened a Red Cross marked first-aid kit and took out a large sewing needle and
string. He very carefully threaded the needle and began to sew the dummy
up where it had been previously cut open.

By now the speakers on the program had
begun to address the assembled but the soldier continued to apply medical
attention to the dummy. He rested the dummy's head on a pillow made from
a military blanket and applied white medical tape over the areas
he had stitched up.

I was deeply moved by this performance art
and found myself moving from the rear of the hall to near the front so that I
could better see the 'operation' that was underway. Most other people had
similar responses and it was just beyond imagination to see how the
artist/soldier kept this whole process going for the next three hours.For a long time he just held and caressed the dummy
in a most loving way.It was all so
real.

Around 8:00 pm the Vietnamese ambassador
to the UN spoke and thanked VFP for its long and dedicated efforts to bring
peace and healing to their war ravaged nation. The ambassador warned us
to remain vigilant as 'some countries' were still pushing wars in order to
control other nations (and their resources) under the guise of 'responsibility
to protect'. At the end of the ambassador's presentation the
artist/soldier left the stage with him.

I later learned that the artist had turned
down an honorarium for his remarkable presentation, only asking for $10 to
reimburse him for taxi fare. I was told that his father was a war veteran
who had taken his own life some time in the past.

Obama has announced a plan, starting in
2012, for a 13-year commemoration of the Vietnam War costing more than $65
million. Rather than conducting an honest national discussion to learn from the U.S.
intervention in Vietnam, the Pentagon is promoting a whitewashing of the war
without acknowledging the terrible damage done to the
Vietnamese people and land. Neither will the military propaganda campaign confront the
lasting impact of this conflict on US soldiers and their families—from loss of
life and physical disabilities and illnesses to the transmission of birth
defects to their children caused by exposure to Agent Orange. The government will
not mention the millions of Vietnamese, including women and children, who were
captured, tortured, displaced, and killed.

Nor will there be any representation of
the heroic U.S. soldiers who resisted the war, or any real acknowledgment of massive
domestic protest. And the Pentagon project will not pay tribute to the voices
and postwar reconciliation activities of many antiwar veterans.

VFP is undertaking a national
counter-effort to the Pentagon's attempt to rewrite the history of the Vietnam War. The government intends to make the war appear to have been a noble struggle in order to more effectively sell future wars to
unsuspecting citizens. A people without a true understanding of their own history are blind and easily manipulated.

It was an honor to be at this first event
by VFP to fully disclose the truth about the Vietnam War to the public. It was an
even greater honor to witness the heart stirring performance piece done by the
artist who clearly understands the tragedy of war.